Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET
Presented by Dave Burstein, Director, Senior Consultant, PSMJ Resources, Inc.
Heavy workloads. Demanding clients. Overworked staff. Pressure to help bring in work. These are just some of the forces conspiring to put unprecedented pressure on today’s AEC Project Managers. Now more than ever, the right investments in improving project management have become critical to boosting profits, avoiding claims, and reducing burnout. Unfortunately, too many AEC firm leaders look at project management improvement through a short-term lens and miss key opportunities to drive success for the long haul.
In this engaging webinar, AEC project management expert David Burstein, P.E. shares his unique insight derived from decades of teaching PSMJ’s AEC Project Management Bootcamp to thousands of Project Managers along with his experience working with a wide range of AEC firm leaders on project performance improvement. He takes you through valuable lessons learned, common themes of success, and how to embed project management improvements into your firm’s day-to-day operations. Discover how to align your team around the right performance metrics, create a culture of accountability beyond training, and drive results that show up on the bottom line.
In this engaging broadcast, you learn how to:
• Focus on measuring the right financial metrics that measure project management performance.
• Avoid common pitfalls that cause even the best training to lose momentum over time.
• Foster a firm-wide project management culture centered on accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Empower Project Managers to lead with confidence and proactively manage risk, scope, and client expectations.
• And much more!
Unless you are completely convinced that you have optimized your project management development efforts, don’t miss this free webinar packed with actionable ideas that you can implement immediately. Whether you are a CEO, PMO, Principal, L&D Manager, or anyone involved with project management improvement, this webinar is for you.
About your presenter:
Dave Burstein, P.E., is a Director and Senior Consultant with PSMJ. He provides consulting and training on a wide range of management and leadership topics. Prior to joining PSMJ, Dave worked for 26 years at Parsons Corporation, one of the world’s largest and most respected engineering-construction firms. During his tenure at Parsons, Dave held a variety of positions, including President of Parsons’ 1,600-person environmental subsidiary and President of Parsons’ 120-person planning subsidiary.
While serving as President of two subsidiaries of Parsons Corporation, Dave participated in several major strategic planning efforts. Since joining PSMJ, he has facilitated strategic planning retreats for over 100 AEC firms ranging in size from fewer than 10 employees to more than 1,000 employees. Reflecting on this experience, he co-authored Strategic Planning: Preparing Your Firm for Success in the Future, first published in 2004 with a second edition published in 2009.
Dave is also one of the nation’s leading authorities on project management for the AEC industry. He developed and published a system for controlling budgets and schedules that is now known as Earned Value Management. In 1981, Dave co-authored (with PSMJ’s Frank Stasiowski) Project Management for the Design Professional, the first textbook on project management for the AEC industry, which has been published in both English and Spanish and sold over 80,000 copies. Dave has since authored two other textbooks on this subject and has developed software solutions to help PMs manage their projects more effectively. Dave also served as principal editor for “Chapter 1: Project Management” in McGraw-Hill’s Standard Handbook of Environmental Engineering, originally published in 1991 and again in 1998. Dave has presented hundreds of project management seminars to thousands of project managers in AEC firms.
Upon joining PSMJ full-time in 1998, Dave developed PSMJ’s Principals Bootcamp and Financial Management for AEC Firm Leaders, which are two-day seminars for current and aspiring principals in AEC firms. Since then, he has presented these programs hundreds of times. These have been conducted both in open enrollment settings and, for larger firms, on an in-house basis. The evaluations for these programs have consistently averaged more than 4.8 on a 1 to 5 scale (i.e., more than 80% of the attendees have rated Dave’s presentation of this program as a 5).
David has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from New Mexico State University and has completed the Crosby Executive Quality College program. He has been a registered professional engineer in many states and is a Diplomate of Environmental Engineering.